An El Paso man was arrested Tuesday morning in Mitchell County after a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper found more than 100 pounds of marijauana in his car during a traffic stop, according to a press release from DPS.

The trooper stopped Alvaro Valdez, 46 -- who was eastbound on Interstate 20 -- for a traffic violation, according to the release. During a search of Valdez’s Chevrolet Impala, the trooper found several individually wrapped packages of marijuana inside a compartment in the rear passenger area. The drug is worth about $42,000, according to the release. The marijuana allegedly was being transported from El Paso to Dallas.

Valdez was being held Tuesday night at Martin County jail on a charge of felony drug possession.

The traffic stop occurred at about 10 a.m. Tuesday in Mitchell County, which is about 90 miles east of Midland.